Introduction

Hands-on software engineering leader with expertise in building scalable architectures, designing distributed systems, and working with product stakeholders. Demonstrable history of working on high-traffic public-facing always-on commercial projects. Passionate about engineering leadership, mentorship, and improving organisational culture.

Reachable at humzashah at gmail dot com.

Work Experience

Credit Karma Staff Software Engineer [July 2019 - Present]

I joined Credit Karma’s UK expansion team to provide both platform and product engineering leadership. So far, I have:

played an instrumental role in integrating data from an acquired company’s systems into Credit Karma’s

led the UK team’s service mesh migration from Linkerd to Envoy

led services that process UK customers’ Personal Identifiable Information, in line with GDPR

My current area of focus is platform security and data encryption using hardware security modules.

Deliveroo Senior Software Engineer [September 2016 - July 2019]

At Deliveroo, I led projects, improved site reliability, improved development workflows, mentored engineers, contributed to hiring, and improved on-boarding. Some of my technical achievements were: